ePassport Test Tools
ePassports need to comply with all the requirements as defined in ICAO, ISO and security (test) specifications. The European Union recently decided to mandate for all chips in ePassports and eResidence Permits to have implemented a new security mechanism ‘Supplemental Access Control’ (SAC) by the end of 2014 and ICAO recommends this for ePassports worldwide.
As the technology and the industry move forward, ensuring a correct implementation and validating the compliance of an ePassport to these specifications is essential. Therefore, to ensure time-effective testing without compromising test coverage, you need standardised, highly automated testing tools for ePassport conformance validation.
Whatever the security mechanisms, before an inspection system is released in the field, it needs to undergo sufficient testing to ensure that it can retrieve all relevant data from any ePassport configuration.
The Collis ePassport test tools are such tools that can test your travel documents and inspection system for ultimate global interoperability.
Collis eMRTD Test Tool
The Collis eMRTD Test Tool explores and interprets the content of an ePassport image and validates the compliance of an ePassport to essential specifications.
Interoperability of electronically-enabled Machine Readable Travel Documents (eMRTDs) and Inspection Systems is critical. Failing eMRTDs form a threat to security, and may harm the citizen’s trust and the credibility of both Issuing and Inspection Authorities. Moreover, replacement of documents or upgrading of inspection systems implies serious financial and operational consequences. To prevent from such problems, high quality eMRTDs, as well as issuing and inspection systems need to be deployed.
The following modules are available:
- Core Module
- Collis ICAO Test Suite (for BAC, SAC and AA)
- Collis EAC Test Suite
UL Transaction Security can facilitate the efficient deployment and quality assurance of eMRTDs through the Collis eMRTD Test Tool.
Collis eMRTD Test Tool for Production
The Collis eMRTD Test Tool for production performs a check on a sample ePassport when it physically comes out of the personalization machine.
